Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Telehealth visits billed to Medicare are currently paid at the same fee-for-service rate as an in-person visit. Medicare added over 100 billing codes for the duration of the public health emergency. CMS will continue this higher Medicare reimbursement rate for 2023, but the future depends on legislators planning 2024’s PFS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The company continues to be the largest network of independent primary care in the country, with more than two million patients covered by more than 150 value-based contracts across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial payers.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. They offer a huge opportunity to improve patient care, reduce hospitalizations, avoid complications, and improve patient engagement—all while reducing costs. 31, 2022), available at [link].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. Conventionally, payment of healthcare providers is based on the volume of services delivered to patients, which is called the fee-for-service (FFS) model.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

Dear Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Neal, Chairman Buchanan, and Ranking Member Doggett: I am writing in response to your May 10 hearing, titled “Examining Policies that Inhibit Innovation and Patient Access.” For example, RPM and RTM are both subject to the 20 percent copay required for Medicare coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

News and Studies The American Telemedicine Association released three tools aimed at addressing disparity and inequity in care : Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map, Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator, and a toolkit including all previously released resources.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Election outcomes, public policies, and unemployment which underpins financial ill-health, is evident across-the-board. One in three working-age people in the U.S. have seen a doctor about something stress-related.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. — John Halamka, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. How will CMS' proposed remote therapeutic monitoring codes enhance patients' quality of care? consumers want virtual care services.

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TheraNest

MARCH 12, 2024

Increased RVU for Some Services In 2024, mental and behavioral health providers can expect increased relative value units (RVUs) for crisis care, psychotherapy, health behavior assessment and intervention (HBAI), and substance use disorder treatment. The value for these services is set to increase by 19.1%

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

But underutilization of digital health technologies is still present, and policy recommendations need to better enable connected health technologies to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. From a cost perspective, chronic illnesses account for 75 percent of the $2.2 trillion we spend on healthcare each year in the United States.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. Getting AI tools into the hands of those who need them most – physicians at the point of care – is an uphill battle.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Disclaimer: This blog article, “Mastering Remote Patient Monitoring Reimbursement: A Guide to Medicare Billing Success,” offers general information and is not a substitute for professional advice. Medicare, as a crucial player in healthcare reimbursement, plays a pivotal role in facilitating the adoption of RPM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Neil Batlivala, Co-Founder and CEO at Pair Team Soon, we’re going to start to see large language models (LLMs) making it very cheap for translation services that can be brought directly to the point of care. The newest tools like large language models can compound these challenges, as they can also generate even more value for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. In theory, fee-for-value would eliminate the need for prior authorization because everyone should be aligned on a common goal of keeping the patient well while minimizing treatment. population.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 18, 2023

Medicare-approved Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has become an increasingly important aspect of healthcare delivery. Remote monitoring through telehealth services has enabled healthcare providers to provide more efficient and effective care to patients, especially those enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Alaina Victoria, PT, DPT, Marketing and Sales Enablement Manager at OneStep With more patients looking for novel care options, technology has stepped in to bridge the gap between in-person care and everyday life.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 3, 2022

We had a course called Health, Care & Society wherein students were challenged to learn and think about ethical issues, health policy principles and engaged in conversations on the role of medical providers in our communities. Rather – they were designed to optimize care (and the revenue that care creates).

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American Well

JANUARY 15, 2016

This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) unveiled the Next Generation ACO Model , which allows select Medicare ACOs to assume more risk in service of pursuing efficient and effective patient care. By Kofi Jones, VP of Government Affairs, American Well.

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American Well

JANUARY 15, 2016

This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) unveiled the Next Generation ACO Model , which allows select Medicare ACOs to assume more risk in service of pursuing efficient and effective patient care. By Kofi Jones, VP of Government Affairs, American Well.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Virtual care, for example, has become an essential part of healthcare delivery. Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. Today, virtual care has taken its place as a mainstay of the U.S. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. To ensure quality care for patients, health systems are exploring new solutions and innovations, such as the use of digital health records and other health information technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis , a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The “Digital Divide” continues to haunt rural and remote areas that could most benefit from virtual care resources. Tribal lands sometimes have the lowest rates of broadband adoption; many Indian Health Services facilities lack the bandwidth to offer virtual care. Challenge: Broadband Internet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. OEMs will be seen deploying subscription-based models instead of upfront purchases.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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care innovations

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an effort to combat the runaway costs endemic to the American healthcare industry, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a series of changes to its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans that could open the door for private senior living providers to seize the opportunities of remote patient management (RPM) services.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In our mobile world, students earn degrees online and professionals work from home; now receiving data-driven medical care from a remote provider is becoming a valued standard in healthcare. Some only provide video calls, in which you’ll diagnose patients based on reported symptoms. Telemedicine is exploding in popularity.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 1, 2018

This patient-centered care should be on every payer’s radar. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed transformative patient-centered care changes to the payment systems for services furnished by a range of medical facilities. billion over 10 years. billion over 10 years.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Type of insurance might be Medicare, Medicaid, private, none. What does health care cost even mean? When politicians talk about costs, they’re referring to federal and state spending on health care. Hospital administrators and physicians talk about the money they spend on the resources needed to care for patients.

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In Hand Health

APRIL 11, 2019

While health care has been slow to adopt, telehealth has grown by 44% in the last five years. Steven Ross Johnson hits the nail on the head in his article for Modern Healthcare : “But many healthcare providers and administrators are not eager to upend their standard model for care delivery, which likely has been in place for decades.

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